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Homer’s Iliad
come home from battle alive, and his kinsmen divided his wealth
among themselves.
Then he came upon two sons of Priam, Echemmon and Chromius,
as they were both in one chariot. He sprang upon them as a lion
fastens on the neck of some cow or heifer when the herd is feeding
in a coppice. For all their vain struggles he flung them both from
their chariot and stripped the armour from their bodies. Then he
gave their horses to his comrades to take them back to the ships.
When Aeneas saw him thus making havoc among the ranks, he
went through the fight amid the rain of spears to see if he could
find Pandarus. When he had found the brave son of Lycaon he
said, “Pandarus, where is now your bow, your winged arrows, and
your renown as an archer, in respect of which no man here can rival
you nor is there any in Lycia that can beat you? Lift then your
hands to Jove and send an arrow at this fellow who is going so
masterfully about, and has done such deadly work among the
Trojans. He has killed many a brave man- unless indeed he is some
god who is angry with the Trojans about their sacrifices, and and
has set his hand against them in his displeasure.”
And the son of Lycaon answered, “Aeneas, I take him for none
other than the son of Tydeus. I know him by his shield, the visor of
his helmet, and by his horses. It is possible that he may be a god,
but if he is the man I say he is, he is not making all this havoc
without heaven’s help, but has some god by his side who is
shrouded in a cloud of darkness, and who turned my arrow aside
when it had hit him. I have taken aim at him already and hit him on
the right shoulder; my arrow went through the breastpiece of his
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